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Not the type of movie I usually watch but it was ok. Th acting was very good. But what truly was outstanding about this was the soundtrack. Zimmer is a god! B

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE After a few dismal weeks, some strong openers finally arrived. Despite that, we have a new 2nd worst overall weekend for 2014. The reason: the incredibly and inexplicably cheap tickets for the local opener. But let's take it in order. - The Maze Runner surprised this weekend, opening to a very strong 37.470 admissions and over $200K. While that pales in comparison to some other openers this year, it's good to remember this is a completely unknown property here. The books were never published in Romania and 'Teen Wolf' never aired here. Basically, it's an YA movie without a pre-built fan base and that makes the result mighty impressive, while also giving some clues about the potential end gross. WOM seems to be good. Comparing 'The Maze Runner' with similar titles, it doubled 'Divergent''s OW admission and money wise. It also almost doubled the first 'Hunger Games' and opened 30% behind 'Catching Fire' (again, THG is a very popular book series here, with huge sales), even though it'll probably end up ahead in gross (CF, being a well established franchise, was frontloaded). At this point we can only guess, but with strong WOM and not much competition ('Dracula Untold' being the only direct competitor in the near future), a total around 1M and 150.000+ adm. seem to be in the cards (there's also a small chance of finishing in Top 10 for the year). - In second place, the local comedy America, venim! (America, here we come!) opened with a surprising 14.260 admissions. That is a very good opening, actually ahead of the 12.650 OW for this year's local hit (and second highest grossing local movie all time) '#Selfie'. But for some reason, the ticket price for 'America, venim!' was just around $2.5, a far cry from the usual $5.5 - 6. Because of that, the movie grossed less than 40K (vs. the 55K for '#Selfie'). Still, it should have nice legs and end with a decent gross. - In third place, thanks to another very small (18%) drop, we find The House of Magic. The animated mini hit has now grossed over 400K. - In fourth place Jennifer Aniston's Life of Crime bombed with a bit less than 4.000 adm. - In fifth the comedy hit Let's be Cops had one of it's steepest drops yet (34%) thanks to competition from 'America, venim!' and 'Life of Crime'. Still, it passed 620K and should have no problems closing well over 700K. - The next place is occupied by Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, that had a nice drop and finally passed the 1M border (in the process it became no. 9 for the year). It should end up with around 1.1M. Quite good of a result. Also, it's GoTG's first weekend in release when the good drop wasn't because of the huge theatre count. An interesting thing to note is that Walt Disney movies get by far the widest releases around here. From the first 5 widest openings ever, 4 are Disney movies (the exception: 'The Hobbit: DOS', that holds the first place). Also, from the 7 films that opened this year on more than 70 screens, 5 where Disney (including 'The Pirate Fairy' and 'Planes'), with 'Captain America: WS' actually being the second widest release ever. - Into the Storm dropped a huge 70% in it's second weekend ---> total bomb. - Lucy, as always, had a good drop (34%). It passed 'Godzilla' and 'Pompeii' on the yearly chart and by the next weekend will pass 'Maleficent' to become no. 4. - If I Stay and As Above, So Below dropped big in their second outings: 56% and 64% respectively ---> bomb territory again. Here's the top 10: Next week's openers: - The Equalizer - Dans la cour - Planşa (local movie) Denzel Washington is not very well known here. His last 3 movies ('2 Guns', 'Flight', 'Safe House') all opened between 15.000 - 20.000 admissions. If 'The Equalizer' follows suit, it should avoid being a bomb. The other two movies will probably do insignificant numbers. Overall, there's a good chance 'The Maze Runner' leads again.

Of course it is It's just the number. Like 333.3. Just 3. It's a funny number.

Prince of Persia. I loved that movie so much. And 2012. And The Road (2009). Also My Soul to Take.

It really depends on how well the sequels will do. Also, looking at Fox's 2015 line-up, TMR 2 might actually be their second biggest movie WW behind KFP 3. I see TMR finishing over 350M. The sequel would look to 450-500M, and that would be enough to beat FF, B.O.O., Paper Towns and the Peanuts Movie methinks..

Haha, it's already the biggest comedy of the year here and it could actually end up in top 3 biggest comedies all time. Awesome legs.

It'll probably close with around 165-170M. Pretty good. Also: If I Stay Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $47,672,000 68.9% + Foreign: $21,500,000 31.1% = Worldwide: $69,172,000 With Japan and Denmark still to open and an 11 M budget this is a nice little hit for WB.

was this posted? Let's Be Cops: Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $77,196,000 76.2% + Foreign: $24,156,000 23.8% = Worldwide: $101,352,000 Amazing!

I agree and don't agree. The main reason Disney has such good grosses with so few movies is because they rarely release something original. Look at this year. From 10 movies 3 are sequels, 2 are Marvel, one is a fairytale action remake (by now a typical Disney move). The only original ones where Million Dollar Arm, Bears and Need For Speed (again, not original) and none of them did particularly good. I'm not downplaying Disney in any way. They found a successful formula and have enough franchises to continue to do it. But there's a reason why the other studios have a bigger number of releases. None of them rely as much on their franchises.

Well, I love HP movies, but not even one of them is better than the book.

It is a trilogy. Also, there's a prequel. All have been already published.

Disney doesn't have a chnace. It may be a 130M difference between it and WB now but WB still has Hobbit (the last one made 201M before the end of the year, this one will likely do more), Horribe Bosses 2, The Judge, Annabelle plus another 3 movies. Alexander probably won't make much and Into the Woods opens on 25th so it doesn't have enough time to make a big difference. Even if Big Hero would make 250M this year, Fox would still win. Warner will come in second.

I think he was talking about the 333.3 number

That was fast. But expected

Not really. At this point Fox is almost locked to win the year. The only studio that has even the smallest chance to beat them is WB, but for that it would need Anabelle, Horrrible Bosses 2 and The Judge all to overperform.

And Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Venezuela and many others.

Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $32,500,000 39.9% + Foreign: $49,000,000 60.1% = Worldwide: $81,500,000 Hoped for a bit more, but it's ok.

Ah, bad drop for TF4. Damn it. Also, pretty big drop for Turtles and Lucy.

Saw the first two episodes. I was entertained. It doesn't have the good effects (and probably neither the budget), the very strong opening of TWD and neither the top notch acting, but it was more than ok. I liked the first 3 seasons of TWD, but after that I got bored. Let's hope this maintains the dynamism.

Honestly, if it makes more than 200M OS that would mean over 300M WW and 10x it's budget, and that without 3D. A HUGE victory for Fox and a big new franchise. WOM seems to be good. The potential for the next installment OS is immense. We could talk 350M+ easily.

Very good opening for The Maze Runner. Doesn't seem frontloaded at all so I hope it has good legs. Ok-ish OW for TIWILY. Good it has a low budget. Acceptable drop for Dolphin Tale also. Waiting for TMNT numbers

Awesome I don't know when it'll get released here though And I want that puppy.

Another very good episode. I'm surprised. I'm starting to like Capaldi. Still nowhere near Tennant but still good. Also, love Clara. Next episode looks interesting